I don’t understand how to connect this to the facts at hand. Building adequate safeguards requires studying safeguards to understand whether they’re adequate. But the source article is dunking on one of AISI’s attempts to study such safeguards; we should, the author argues, consider whatever behavior the model exhibits to be an explicit decision by whoever provided the model. It seems impossible to build or study safeguards against model misbehavior without accepting that the models can make decisions.